On 16 Nov, 20:22, Dave Hall <dave.h...@skwashd.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:05 +1100, Norm wrote: > > You know, > > > This may sound a little like heresy, but is a new release every 6 months > > sustainable? Or even necessary? Is it just me or is each new release > > becoming > > just a little more buggy? > > > It just seems like they're coming out of a sausage factory with the casings > > not > > quite tied off. I keep going back to Hardy for a "good experience" > > > Perhaps an "update pack" every six months and stick with the current LTS > > schedule for mainstream releases? > > I see the non LTS releases as developer snapshot builds. There are some > occasions where you will run them in production, like I am currently > doing with Karmic for the virtualisation improvements. > > At the same time 80% of the boxes I have deployed in production > environments (desktops and servers) run LTS releases. Why? because I > want it to be solid and don't want to have to upgrade every 6 months. > > The only machine which is regularly running alphas/betas/rc/just > released versions of ubuntu is my primary machine - my laptop. It has > only completely died once - corrupted cryptroot on a karmic alpha > +updates. Why? because if something is seriously busted I want to know > about it well before the version goes gold and also I like shiny stuff. > > I do think that ubuntu and canonical need to review their marketing > strategy for non LTS releases. I think that there is too much emphasis > on promoting them to Jo/e Average user, where most of them would be > better off on an LTS release. Can you imagine that chaos in the retail > IT sector if MS released a new version of Windows every 6 (or even 12) > months? > > Cheers > > Dave > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Dave is that why Gawd invented virtual machines :) My solution is stick with what works be it any flavour of an os but play in VM land with all the other stuff. Learning curve heaven :( Frustrating as heck as some of the VM stuff does not like the new stuff . You should see how twisted up we are with win 7 AND koala 9.10 64 bit this end . But a *lot* better than the old paper tape and 80 col punched card days eh :) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
